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[selyah]

thanks for the input



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 From: Matthew Kaufman <mkfmncom at gmail.com>
To: NYPHP Talk <talk at lists.nyphp.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] printing orders to a printer
 


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On Sep 17, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Rob Marscher <rmarscher at beaffinitive.com> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 9:32 PM, selyah <selyah1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Hi everyone:
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>>I am redesigning a website for a pizza shop and one of the criteria is to have the orders that are placed on the to be printed on a printer (or fax machine) when an order is placed.
>>I understand that a printing protocol can be used, but wanted to know if there are any other ideas of ways of setting this up.
>>I have never done something like this before and not sure how to approach it.
>>thanks in advance
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>If you wanted to go down the route of sending a fax, you could try a web service that does it:
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>http://www.interfax.net/en/dev
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>https://www.phaxio.com
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>The advantage is that it could be done from a web server without needing to integrate with anything on-site.
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>I built an ordering app though and the owners log into a page that shows the current orders. They hit a button that users window.print to print out all of the pending orders and updates them in the database as having been printed. So next time when they print or reload the page, it doesn't print the same orders again. You can even use css page-break-after to separate orders into different pages.
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